h1. Medium.com April 2016 CMS News https://thebolditalic.com br. http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/replies/68035 "Medium is making its pitch for the commercial publishing web. I guess that's where the money is. Best of luck! (I want the bloggers.)" https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/717356855383756801 - but Dave Winer wrote that on Twitter and not on his own blog site. #medium #publishing #writing #media From: JR's : micro blog - Apr 05, 2016 - reply 12 replies JR: http://www.techmeme.com/160405/p13#a160405p13 - 9 mins ago - # - reply JR: http://mediagazer.com/160405/p12#a160405p12 - 9 mins ago - # - reply JR: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/5/11362398/medium-for-publishers-the-awl-bill-simmons-the-ringer - 9 mins ago - # - reply JR: "Starting today, more than a dozen operations — including The Awl, Pacific Standard, and the revived local San Francisco site The Bold Italic — are migrating to Medium. More are on their way later this year, including Simmons' site and new offshoots of Time Inc. magazines Money and Fortune." - 7 mins ago - # - reply JR: media dorks can finally rest easy with medium's news in recent weeks that medium is a platform. finally, the media has an answer to their question, "what is medium?" the media cannot function without their questions being answered. - 6 mins ago - # - reply JR: "Medium is offering new design tools for these publishers to customize their sites, custom URLs, and a migration tool to more easily bring the property over to Medium. " - 6 mins ago - # - reply JR: "It also lined up a handful of brands, including Nest, Bose, and Intel, to create native advertisements that can be found at the bottom of posts from sites published by Medium, with revenue sharing plans in place. " - 6 mins ago - # - reply JR: "And it's promising to cross-promote stories published on Medium across its network, offering small sites a traffic boost. Aside from splitting ad revenue, there's no cost to publishers for any of these features." - 5 mins ago - # - reply JR: sounds like a good plan for medium in their long, slow growth idea. medium launched to the public for reading in september 2012, but it was not open to everyone for writing until about a year later. medium has taken a slow approach to development. prob cause they are in it for the long haul. - 4 mins ago - # - reply JR: some businesses and orgs want to research, write, edit, and publish, and then repeat. they don't have the time to worry about silos and the open web and blah blah blah. they want to get their job done and then move on. medium may make this easier for many orgs. it's not medium's fault. - 2 mins ago - # - reply JR: hah! here's an example of the media's angst over the media being unable to classify, define, or categorize medium ... - 20 secs ago - # - reply JR: "This new initiative is a sensible move for Medium, which looks to be on the cusp of solving its identity crisis. Since launching in August 2012, the San Francisco-based company has shifted its focus enough times that it could be hard to discern a master plan." ---- hilarious and so predictable - 1 secs ago - # - reply hr. http://www.theawl.com/2016/04/i-also-could-have-gone-with-medium-cool http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/04/medium-gives-publishers-new-ways-to-make-money-instant-articles-and-amp-support-are-on-the-way/ https://medium.com/electric-literature/electric-literature-is-moving-to-medium-433e21cfed69#.19rlsp1l4 http://www.talkingnewmedia.com/2016/04/05/medium-introduces-medium-for-publishers-to-attempt-to-attract-content-producers/ http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/04/05/medium-will-let-pay-subscribe-favorite-publications/ https://femsplain.com/making-new-homes-27dbfb2e694c#.bpw28cok8 http://digiday.com/publishers/medium-brings-publishers-including-awl-hairpin/ https://medium.com/the-story/making-medium-more-powerful-for-publishers-39663413a904#.nae6lk59k http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/05/the-awl-and-other-indie-publishers-are-moving-to-medium/ https://medium.com/the-story/revenue-on-medium-5e7e6218f70c#.pxkiajuoh http://www.wired.com/2016/04/medium-now-way-power-entire-sites-including-ads/ https://psmag.com/introducing-the-new-psmag-com-3309d91fcd6d#.iiq7473d3 https://publishers.medium.com/index.html http://www.poynter.org/2016/medium-becomes-latest-tech-company-to-lure-publishers-aboard/405247/ #medium